User:Murray.L.Brown


 * Murray L. Brown
 * 208 Hubbell St.
 * Edgewater, Florida 32132
 * United States of America
 * m.brown.nsb@gmail.com

Profile Extensive experience and management responsibilities in environmental resource surveys, marine and coastal studies, impact assessments and database development, particularly marine. Managed contracted marine environmental studies programs, performed by companies, universities and research institutions, with special emphasis on physical and chemical surveys of the Gulf of Mexico. A pioneer in the use of community software and datasets for operational oceanography, with particular emphasis on offshore oil and gas activities. Principal author and former editor of IOC/IODE OceanTeacher training materials in marine data management. Currently editor emeritus of the Marine Data Literacy Project.

Education Lic. Scient. (Ph.D.), Marine Chemistry, University of Copenhagen 1975; B.S. Chemistry, Duke University 1969

Career History
 * Marine Data Literacy (MDL) Program, 2013-Present, Editor
 * Writes and maintains the largest online collection of marine data exercises on the web
 * Volunteer trainer in developing States
 * Private Consultant and UNESCO Volunteer 1999-2013
 * Marine Data Management Trainer
 * Editor and principal trainer for marine data management in OceanTeacher
 * Technical monitor for migration of OceanTeacher from static HTML to a semantic wiki environment
 * Trainer in over 30 marine data management workshops in 15 countries
 * Author/originator of the OceanTeacher binary training system
 * Author/originator of the Roadmap training exercises in marine data management
 * Editor/publisher of MarineDataLiteracy.org public-domain training materials in marine data management
 * U.S. Minerals Management Service, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1980-1999, Oceanographer
 * Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative for over $60M in environmental studies of the marine environment in the Gulf of Mexico, including physical, chemical, geological, biological and cultural resource studies
 * Managed the MMS Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program for 17 years, including the Louisiana/Texas Shelf program, the nation’s largest coordinated physical survey of the coastal shelf
 * Managed the MMS South Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography Program for 7 years
 * Developed and implemented the Information Management studies series for the MMS
 * Wrote over 20 Physical Oceanography Environmental Impact Statements for the Gulf of Mexico
 * Chief editor for over 250,000 pages of MMS synthesis reports in 9 study areas
 * U.S. Army Engineer Corps, Southeastern Division, USA, 1976-1980, Environmental Specialist
 * Environmental project inspection and assessment, particularly in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico
 * Contract monitor for 23 EISs for offshore waste disposal sites around the 50 States